Your smile was so disarming You'd better mind your own affair Picking up the pieces of a life that shone in tatters You're gonna come back if you dare Ain't it always the way? You get just one chance Ain't it always the way? Ain't it always the way? You'd better learn to mind your business Watch out for your own, sail your boat on placid bays You'd better learn to keep the big ship On the straight and narrow, let the first mate cast away Ain't it always the way? You get just one chance Ain't it always the way? Ain't it always the way? And then along comes the day And then along comes the day Be a winner, a dead ringer for the truth Will the circle be unbroken? Be a master of your destiny This is not a joke Ain't it always the way? You get just one chance Ain't it always the way? Ain't it always the way? Always the way